CHICAGO 
There was a loud roar before the game when Doug Bruno got a ring for being an assistant on the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team that won a gold medal in London. There was nothing for DePaul fans to cheer about after that.

Jewell Loyd added 19 points. Kayla McBride scored 16, and the Fighting Irish (25-1, 13-0 Big East) cruised to another easy victory. Their only loss was to Baylor in early December, and DePaul (18-9, 7-6) never had a chance in this one.

"I've not been able to figure out best how to restructure how we play," said Bruno, whose team has been hit hard by injuries this season and has dropped four of the past six games. "I really over these last 15 days have not been happy with what we've demonstrated and what we've shown. ... We just can't stand there and sit there and just take it without fight. That's what our program has always been about - fighting."

Notre Dame took it right to DePaul and won by 20 or more for the fourth straight game while sending the Blue Demons to their second straight blowout loss. The Fighting Irish still have some big hurdles to clear if they're going to stay unbeaten in conference play, with Syracuse up next and Connecticut looming in the finale after a trip to Providence. But they sure are looking good at the moment.

The Irish forced 21 turnovers and held DePaul to 33.3-percent shooting. Brittany Hrynko scored 15 points but was just 4 of 19 from the field, and the Blue Demons fell hard again after getting blasted 81-55 by Louisville a week earlier.

Diggins, Notre Dame's second-leading all-time scorer, came through with her second career triple-double and the fourth in school history. She also had one against Maryland in the Elite Eight last season, the first for the Fighting Irish since 1990, and the 10 rebounds were one shy of her personal best.

"The assist part, I had the easy part," Diggins said. "We got out in transition well and a lot of times we just played off of each other. ... A lot of (the rebounds) kind of bounced to me."

Loyd hit 8 of 15 shots. McBride was 7 of 13 from the field. Natalie Achonwa added 14 points and eight rebounds, and Notre Dame beat DePaul for the eighth time in nine games to tie the all-time series at 19 apiece.

"Notre Dame has great athleticism and quickness," Bruno said. "There's no doubt about that. ... If the answer is they're better than us, why are we selling tickets and showing up? It's our jobs to figure out how to beat people that have all this talent and athleticism. That's the beauty and joy of coaching this great game of basketball, because it can be done. It's not like our players weren't fighting. I'm not trying to say they didn't fight. It's just been a blah bunch of games. We're not about blah."